Improved tool for opening cans



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GEORGE A. DIOKSON, OF WOODCOCK TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 72,464, dated December 24, 1867. I

IMPROVED TOOL FOR OPENING CANS TO ALL WHO IT MAY CONCERN: 7

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. DfoKsoN, of Woodcock to wnship, in the county of Crawford, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a. new and improved Tool for Opening Oyster and Fruit-Cans; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the some, reference being had to the eccornpunying drawings, and the letters of referencemunked thereon.

A, Figure 3, is a. stock of wood, with an Indie-rubber washer at B; also, O O. F G are two triangular knife-blades, bent around the stock at S, andattaohed' thereto by the screws 1- 2. v

D, Figure 1, is a. cylinder of metal. with a collar or bend of India, rubber Orleuther on its lower end, E E. The tool, fig. 3, is placed inside the cylinder D.

Figure 2 is a. "sectional view, to show the position of the cutting-tool inside the cylinder. The India-rubber collar 0 e fills up the inside of the cylinder, or packs the tool somewhat as a piston-head is packed in a steamcylinder.

The tool, as represented at fig. 1, is placed on the can to be opened, and then the knives are driven through the tin of the canbya, blow on the stock A. The rubber or leather collars, E E, e e, and B, prevent the juice from the inside the can from flying out and overthe clothes of the operator.

What I cleim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The cutting-tool, constructed as shown at fig. 3, when the same is in combination with the cylinder D and the India-rubber packing B O C, and the collar E E, constructed its described, for the purposes set forth.

GEORGE A DIGKSON.

Witnesses:

A. B. RICHMOND, WM. BEATTY. 

